Jeff Gannon’s AmEx Card

Hotline today has an early preview of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine interview with Jim “Jeff Gannon” Guckert, proving that his 15 minutes are not quite up yet.

In two of the more revealing moments, he lays out his position on gay marriage (“My position is that I can’t imagine that gay marriage would be something that I would be interested in in the first place. I actually like being alone.”) and explains how to address him (“My Amex card still comes in the name of James Guckert, but I want to be called Jeff Gannon. That is who I am.”).

Here’s how he explains why he thinks the WH let him in: “I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t know the criteria they use. I asked to be let in, and they allowed me to come. I was very fond of all the people in the press office. They treated me well. They probably treated me better than I deserved.”

And here’s his response when the NYTM’s Solomon confronts Gannon on his precise relationship with Scott McClellan: “I was just another guy in the press room. Did I try to curry favor with him? Sure. When he got married, I left a wedding card for him in the press office. People are saying this proves there is some link. But as Einstein said, ‘Sometimes a wedding card is just a wedding card.’”

Indeed. Truer words have seldom been spoken in the history of Talon News.

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